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Ancient Roman Gladiators Were Huge Celebrities Who Even Had Their Own Merch
A tiny gladiator figurine was used as a handle on a 2,000-year-old copper folding knife found in an English river, suggesting ...
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These Historic Sites in the U.S. Were Once Endangered. Now They’re Thriving
Since 1988, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has been naming America’s most endangered historic places, ...
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Australian Zoo Asks Residents to Capture the World’s Most Venomous Spider: the Deadly Sydney Funnel-Web
While this quest may scare away arachnophobes, public donations of funnel-webs are critical to the mission of the Australian ...
Smithsonian Magazine5h
A Federal Agent’s Laptop Held the Keys to Seize $3.6 Billion in Stolen Bitcoin. Here’s How it Ended Up at the Smithsonian
At the Smithsonian | November 18, 2024 3:11 p.m. Soon to be on display at the National Museum of American History, the laptop is the centerpiece of a criminal case that shows an evolving understanding ...
Smithsonian Magazine6h
The Andes’ Translucent Glass Frogs Need to Be Seen to Be Saved
The amphibians are at the mercy of mining operations that are destroying their ecosystems, but local communities throughout ...
Smithsonian Magazine8h
The ‘Penicillin Girls’ Made One of the World’s Most Life-Saving Discoveries Possible
The true, forgotten and sometimes-stinky history of the cohort who took Alexander Fleming's innovation and forever changed ...
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Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence With NASA via a Radio Transmitter Not Used Since 1981
The farthest spacecraft in the universe went momentarily rogue, but scientists breathed a sigh of relief when it reconnected ...
Smithsonian Magazine5h
Pesto the Enormous, Viral King Penguin Molts His Baby Feathers
The 50-pound penguin at Australia's Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium is now roughly 9 months old and losing his downy fluff in favor of adult plumage. (Credit: Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium) Explore ...
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Discover the Origins of a Psychedelic Drug Synthesized by a Swiss Chemist Who Claimed It ‘Found and Called Me’
Five years after he created LSD in a lab on this day in 1938, Albert Hofmann accidentally underwent the first acid trip in ...
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Before the Titanic Sank, a Cheerful Passenger Wrote in a Postcard That He Was ‘Leaving for the Land of Stars and Stripes’
A handwritten note by Richard William Smith, a British businessman who perished in the disaster, is heading to the auction ...
Smithsonian Magazine2d
ChatGPT or Shakespeare? Readers Couldn’t Tell the Difference—and Even Preferred A.I.-Generated Verse
A new study suggests people might like chatbot-produced poems for their simple and straightforward images, emotions and ...
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Father and Son Discover Rare Trove of 16th- and 17th-Century Silver Coins While Metal Detecting in a Polish Forest
Sławomir and Szymon Milewski were searching for an ancient road when they stumbled upon the cache of coins, which is worth more than $120,000 Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent Father-and-son duo ...